Month: October 2014

Is your organization constrained by 2nd platform data warehouse technologies with limited or no budget to move forward towards 3rd platform agile technologies such as a Data Lake? As an EMC customer you have the advantage of leveraging existing EMC investments to develop a Federation Data Lake at minimal cost. Additionally, the Federation Data Lake will generate healthy returns, as it is packaged up with the expertise needed to immediately execute on data lake uses cases such as data warehouse ETL offloading and archiving. With the release of William Schmarzo’s Five Tactics…

Hadoop is Everywhere – 99% companies will deploy/pilot Hadoop in 18-24 months according to IDC. These environments will largely be based around standalone servers resulting in added management tasks due to data being spread out across many disk spindles across the data center. With Hadoop clusters quickly expanding, organizations are starting to experience the typical growing pains one can compare to adolescence. This begs the question- should DAS server configuration be the accepted status-quo for Hadoop deployments? Whether you are getting started with Hadoop or growing your Hadoop deployment, EMC…

As Hadoop becomes the central component of enterprise data architectures, the open source community and technology vendors have built a large Big Data ecosystem of Hadoop platform capabilities to fill in the gaps of enterprise application requirements. For data processing, we have seen MapReduce batch processing being supplemented with additional data processing techniques such as Apache Hive, Apache Solr, and Apache Spark to fill in the gaps for SQL access, search, and streaming. For data storage, direct attached storage (DAS) has been the common deployment configuration for Hadoop; however, the…

What does it take to make CIO Magazine’s Top 100 List? Big Data victory is one of them. Michael Cucchi, Sr Director of Product Maketing at Pivotal, had the privilege to speak with one of the winners – EMC CIO Vic Bhagat. Discussing the pains and gains of EMC’s Big Data initiative, I have put together a summary of this interview below. EMC IT’s approach to Big Data is exactly what the EVP Federation enables organizations to do – first collect any and all data in a Data Lake, deploy the…